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Birth:          1170 of Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France
Death:          16 Oct 1210 Louvain

Notes
heiress of Boulogne
b 1160/65
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Boulogne,_Duchess_of_Brabant
Matilda of Flanders (1170 – 16 October 1210) was the younger daughter of Marie I, 
Countess of Boulogne, and her husband Matthew, Count of Boulogne. Matilda was 
Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant.

Matilda's parents' marriage was annulled the year she was born and her mother 
became a Benedictine nun at St. Austrebert, Montreuil and died in 1182.[1] Matilde's 
father continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when her older 
sister Ida became countess.

At the age of nine, Matilda married Henry I, Duke of Brabant, in 1179. The couple 
went on to have seven children:[1]
Maria (c. 1190 – May 1260), married in Maastricht after 19 May 1214 Otto IV, Holy 
Roman Emperor, married July 1220 Count William I of Holland
Adelaide (b. c. 1190), married 1206 Arnold III, Count of Loos, married 3 February 1225 
William X of Auvergne (c. 1195–1247), married before 21 April 1251 Arnold van 
Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288)
Margaret (1192–1231), married January 1206 Gerard III, Count of Guelders (d. 22 
October 1229)
Mathilde (c. 1200 – 22 December 1267), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count 
Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1214), married on 6 December 1214 Floris IV, Count of 
Holland
Henry II of Brabant (1207–1248), married firstly before 22 August 1215 Marie of 
Hohenstaufen; married secondly in 1240 Sophie of Thuringia
Godfrey (1209 – 21 January 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Maria van Oudenaarde
child, whose name and sex is unknown

Matilde died in 1210 or 1211. She was buried at St. Peter's in Leuven.[1]

Parents
D'ALSACE Matthew (Matthieu) (ABT 1137 - 25 Jul 1173)
OF BLOIS Marie (Mary) (1136 - 25 Jul 1182)

Siblings
D'ALSACE AND FLANDERS Matilda (Maud) (1170 - 16 Oct 1210)

Marriage To ____ Henry I (1165 - 5 Sep 1235)
    m. 1179 his 1st

Notes

Parents
____ Godfrey III (1142 - 10 Aug 1190)
VON LIMBURG Margaret (1135 - 1173)

Children by ____ Henry I 1165 - 5 Sep 1235
OF BRABANT Matilda (Mathilde) (ABT 1200 - 22 Dec 1267)
____ Henry (Henri) II "the Courageous" "the Magnanimous" (1207 - 1 Feb 1248)

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